jeffw@lemmy.worldM to News@lemmy.world · 1 month agoIdaho state senator tells Native American candidate to “go back where you came from”www.motherjones.comexternal-linkmessage-square96fedilinkarrow-up1701arrow-down18
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minus-squareAlexanderTheDead@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up26·1 month agoIf we’re going to be anal about it, we don’t need to mention ancestors at all. One of these people was born in Idaho. The other was not. Get it?
minus-squareelucubra@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down10·1 month agoAgree, but then the whole Native American thing has no place in the discussion, no? I-m just trying to point out the absurdities of “nativism”
minus-squareleftytighty@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8arrow-down1·1 month agoThere’s this one detail that makes the two kinds of settlement different, I wonder if you can spot what it is.
minus-squareelucubra@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down8·edit-21 month agoI don’t but I’d like to know
minus-squareleftytighty@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10arrow-down1·1 month agoEuropean settlers eradicated the native population, the initial indigenous migration settled an unsettled land.
minus-squareAlexanderTheDead@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 month agoIt’s part of the discussion because the guy is a racist and told a person of color to “go back where they came from”. “Nativism is a cancer” is insane. What are you, pro-colonialism? Pro-genocide? You have to genuinely have something wrong with you.
If we’re going to be anal about it, we don’t need to mention ancestors at all. One of these people was born in Idaho. The other was not. Get it?
Agree, but then the whole Native American thing has no place in the discussion, no? I-m just trying to point out the absurdities of “nativism”
There’s this one detail that makes the two kinds of settlement different, I wonder if you can spot what it is.
I don’t but I’d like to know
European settlers eradicated the native population, the initial indigenous migration settled an unsettled land.
It’s part of the discussion because the guy is a racist and told a person of color to “go back where they came from”.
“Nativism is a cancer” is insane. What are you, pro-colonialism? Pro-genocide? You have to genuinely have something wrong with you.